Chair



(No Model.)

G. L. BURDETT.

' GHAIR.

Patented May 12. 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEO GEORGE LYMAN BURDETT, OF KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,497, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed February 4, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE LYMAN BUR- DETT, of Keene, in the county of Cheshire, of the Commonwealth of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chairs; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top View, and Fig. 2 a median section, of achair of myimproved kind. Fig. 3 is a top view of the seat as provided with tenons for securing it to the posts of the chairframe.

The nature of my improvement is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

In constructing the chair I make the seat in part of a suitable frame, at, having tenons 1) extending from it at its four corners, such tenons being to enter corresponding notches formed in the four posts d of the chair-frame. The said frame a I cover with a binding of wood or other proper material, wound or carried around it from front to rear and side to side of it, the lengthwise coils being interwoven with the widthwise one, in a manner substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

Directlyin front of the front edge of the seat Iextend from one of the front posts to the other of the frame and secure to them a rung, 6, 0 which not only serves to strengthen the chairframe, but as a protection of the front edge or portion of the seat-coveringfrom injury or wear.

I am aware that a slatted-seated chair has been devised which is provided at the front 5 of the seat with a binding-strip, to which the slatted part of the seat is secured, and which strip is a portion of the seat structure. I place the rung e in front of and separate from the seat. This rung thus protects the looped poro tions of the wood binding where it covers the front of the seat-frame, and thus keeps this binding from being worn and broken. The rung 6, being distinct from the seat, can be renewed without affecting the seat structure. 4 5

What I claim is In a chair such as described, the chairframe, in combination with the seat, consisting of the frame I) and the wood binding a, wound about the frame, and the rung e, se- 50 cured in front of the seat, whereby the front of the wood binding is kept from wear, as set forth.

GEORGE LYMAN BURDETT.

Witnesses It. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

